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Hellermann, John; Thorne, Steven L. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Drawing on usage-based approaches to the study of language learning--including recent research on mobility in interaction, embodied approaches to cognition and communicative action, and innovations in place-based language learning in the wild--this article uses methods from ethnomethodological conversation analysis to investigate video recordings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language)
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Artetxe Sarasola, Miren – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper explores the experience and impact of participation in afterschool oral improvisation workshops -- bertso workshops -- for young Basque speakers. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews among young people in the Northern Basque Country, the researcher, a practicing improviser, bertsolari, herself, argues that the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Workshops, Creative Activities, Self Concept
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Fernandez, Loretta – L2 Journal, 2022
This case study explores the cognitive and emotional development of a university student using the schema of a complete orienting basis of action (SCOBA) in her learning of Italian as a foreign language. The article follows Marie, a 19-year-old undergraduate student, as she used a SCOBA that illustrated the concept of Genre and Register in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian, Learning Processes
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Ebadi, Saman; Ebadijalal, Marjan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of a virtual reality (VR) tool on Iranian EFL learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) and oral proficiency. Twenty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups role-playing as museum guides with and without Google Expeditions VR…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lv, Lihui; Liu, Chunyan – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper investigated how production task combined with teacher feedback (in the form of recasts) affects child second language development, and the effects of task complexity on their production performance. 92 child learners of English in three intact classes were assigned to three tasks of different complexity (simple, +complex, ++complex).…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Awang, Suryani; Hassan, Wan Nurhafiza Fatini Wan; Abdullah, Normah; Zakaria, Wan Nuur Fazliza Wan; Razak, Siti Shazlin – English Language Teaching, 2022
Communication strategies (CS) have been generally used to overcome oral communication problems in delivering the intended messages. While studies on CS mostly involved simulated communication contexts, the current study deviates from the past studies on CS by identifying the types of CS employed by candidates of real job interviews and examining…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aubé, Sophie; Mimeau, Catherine; Gagnon, Eloi; Remon, Alexandra; Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Ouellet-Morin, Isabelle; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel; Dionne, Ginette – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Given the importance of writing for academic achievement, this study aimed to understand how early oral language contributes to later writing skills. The first objective was to determine if preschool language skills were associated with high school writing, and if so, whether they contributed directly or indirectly through school age language. The…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Writing Skills, Academic Achievement, Oral Language
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Eadie, Patricia; Stark, Hannah; Snow, Pamela; Gold, Lisa; Watts, Amy; Shingles, Beth; Orsini, Francesca; Connell, Judy; Goldfeld, Sharon – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Teacher classroom instructional practice can be a powerful influence on student learning. The Classroom Promotion of Oral Language randomized controlled trial tested whether teacher professional learning focused on promoting oral language in classrooms could improve teacher knowledge and classroom instruction. This study focuses on evaluating the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment
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Egilsson, Björn Rúnar; Dockett, Sue; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Interpretation in cross-language qualitative research presents a range of methodological and ethical challenges. Among these are the interpreters' influence on data generation and interview power dynamics. Having translators review and/or produce an independent translation of recorded interview material for comparative purposes is regarded as one…
Descriptors: Translation, Ethics, Language Processing, Preschool Education
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Arwae, Sophia; Soontornwipast, Kittitouch – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study is aimed at developing students' scientific oral presentation competence and competence in questionand-answer sessions, through the scientific presentation instruction: focus on question-and-answer sessions (SPIQA). The SPIQA contained coping strategies for question-andanswer sessions, communication strategies, impromptu speech…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Schreyer, Christine; Wagner, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Since independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world, has had both unofficial and official policies of mother-tongue education. However, limited resources and support for mother-tongue education has led communities to incorporate bottom-up language planning as well. In particular, this paper examines…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Rural Areas
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Chang, Anna C-S; Chen, Brandt T-Y – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
This study compared the multidimensional effects of written and oral vocabulary exercises on EFL learners' retention of single-word items (SWI) and multi-word items (MWI). Two teaching experiments (times) were conducted with 54 college students, who studied four themed-based texts, two at a time. A total of 60 unfamiliar vocabulary items, 30 in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Feroce, Nick; Liu, Jenny; Chattergoon, Rajendra – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examines the relationship between English language proficiency outcomes and the use of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that is designed to strengthen the academic English and oral proficiency skills of young English Learners (ELs). We compare scores on a standardized English language proficiency assessment for 2,034…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kara Marie Yarrington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult first language (L1) English speakers who are advanced second language (L2) learners of Spanish demonstrate near-ceiling levels of accuracy for some features of Spanish, such as [Person] and [Number] for verbs (McCarthy, 2012; Rodgers, 2011). While for other features, such as [Aspect] for copulas (i.e. ser and estar), and [Person] and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Juliette D. Duthoit – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the recent surge of online language learning, it is important to explore the different possible modalities of online learning and the factors that could influence the success of those modalities in language learning. This study found differences in (1) motivation, (2) anxiety, (3) perception of the learning community, and (4) oral proficiency…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, French, Second Language Learning
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